Appeals

Experienced Appellate Attorneys

The attorneys at Brause, Brause & Ventrice, L.L.C., have extensive experience in appellate practice. Whether you wish to appeal an adverse decision or whether you must respond to an appeal after you prevailed at trial, our Middlesex County appellate attorneys have the experience and skill to aggressively argue your case on appeal.

Appellate practice in the State of New Jersey is complicated and requires knowledge and experience in both the substantive law and the rules of appellate procedure. Our attorneys stand ready to draw upon their combined experience of more than 50 years in various areas of the law to present your case in a professional well written and persuasively argued written brief and at oral argument before the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey and even before the New Jersey Supreme Court when appropriate.

The appellate attorneys at the Middlesex County firm of Brause, Brause & Ventrice, L.L.C., have successfully argued appeals and responded to appeals in various areas of the law, including divorce and family law, criminal defense, workers’ compensation, personal injury, and various other areas of the law. The following are some examples of arguments that we have made on appeal:

Divorce and Family Law – We successfully persuaded the New Jersey Appellate Division to reverse the decision of a trial judge who terminated our client’s right to receive alimony after her ex-husband convinced the trial judge that our client was cohabitating with another man. The Appellate Division agreed with us that we presented ample evidence to dispute her ex-husband’s claim of cohabitation to require a hearing on the issue before the trial judge.

Workers’ Compensation – We successfully argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court that a volunteer firefighter who was injured in the course of her employment as a volunteer firefighter was entitled to temporary disability benefits at the maximum rate of compensation even if she had no form of income. This was the first time that the State Supreme Court ruled that temporary disability benefits were available to a volunteer firefighter who had no other form of income. Before this victory, a volunteer firefighter was only assured temporary disability benefits if she had some other form of income at the time that she was injured while volunteering as a firefighter. We also successfully persuaded the New Jersey Appellate Division that a Workers Compensation Judge did not perform the proper legal analysis to determine whether our client, who worked part-time when she was injured, should be entitled to receive workers’ compensation benefits based upon a full-time 40 hour work week because her injuries were so severe that they prevent her from working in her chosen field of employment on a full-time basis in the future. The Appellate Division remanded the case back to the Workers Compensation Judge to perform the proper legal analysis.

Criminal Defense – Helping defendants throughout Middlesex County, our appellate lawyers have successfully argued various points of law in which we found mistakes of law by trial judges, including illegal searches and seizures, errors in jury instructions, improper introduction of evidence, rejection from pre-trial intervention, and excessive sentences.

Juvenile Delinquency – We were among the appellate lawyers who successfully defended a trial court’s decision that denied the news media’s attempt to gain access to the juvenile court proceedings that arose out of the Sayreville High School football hazing case.

The foregoing are offered only as examples of some of the results that we have obtained, and involve specific factual and legal circumstances that are unique to the individual cases. These examples should not be construed or interpreted to suggest that we may obtain similar results in your case.

Contact Our Middlesex County Appellate Lawyers for Representation

Our firm takes pride in its New Jersey roots, serving Middlesex County and the surrounding communities. For a free consultation, call 732-767-0044 or contact us online today to speak with the appellate lawyers at Brause, Brause & Ventrice, L.L.C..

We serve clients throughout New Jersey including those in the following localities: Middlesex County including Avenel, Carteret, Colonia, Cranbury, Dunellen, East Brunswick, Edison, Fords, Highland Park, Iselin, Kendall Park, Metuchen, Middlesex, Monmouth Junction, Monroe Township, New Brunswick, North Brunswick, Old Bridge, Parlin, Perth Amboy, Piscataway, Plainsboro, Sayreville, South Amboy, South Plainfield, South River, and Woodbridge; Monmouth County including Middletown; Somerset County including Bridgewater and Somerville.